Yahoo YQL Web Service Winter Olympics Game Tutorial

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Yahoo YQL Web Service Winter Olympics Game Tutorial

Yahoo YQL Web Service Winter Olympics Game Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that reminds you again about the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog, building on yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON First Name Tutorial as shown below. The name is the way it is because it simplified the API aspects of its functionality for the developer to concentrate on SQL, and I’m really supportive of this concept. You don’t have to output in JSON, as other data forms like XML are acceptable. Let’s see what Wikipedia says about YQL below.

Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) is an SQL-like query language created by Yahoo! as part of their Developer Network. YQL is designed to retrieve and manipulate data from APIs through a single Web interface, thus allowing mashups that enable developers to create their own applications.[1]

Initially launched in October 2008 with access to Yahoo APIs,[2] February 2009 saw the addition of open data tables from third parties such as Google Reader, the Guardian, and The New York Times.[3] Some of these APIs still require an API key to access them. On April 29th of 2009, Yahoo introduced the capability to execute the tables of data built through YQL using JavaScript run on the company’s servers for free.[3]

So this tutorial uses a YQL web service into the data emanating from its links to a Winter Olympics database of the http://isithackday.com website (where they have a useful CSV file called medals.csv) … thanks. You fill in a Medal Presentation (secret) number of interest to get presented with 5/8 of the information required to score a point … your job, should you decide to take it on, Jim, is to pick those other 3/8 of the information.

The two big PHP functions of use for this are (normally):

  • file_get_contents
  • json_decode … but today we prefer to read the medals.csv file as mentioned above to derive information required to run the game … it’s the same information as you’d need to walk the game actually … this approach to the Winter Olympics game came about as a result of perusing the arrangements for wintermedals and saw that this was a good pared down arrangement … data can be handled in a large variety of ways

Good links for information regarding this tutorial (thanks) are:

There are three live run ideas …

Another tool you should have in your armoury for jobs like this is the online JSON validator here. A generic JSON approach to issues could be:

  1. Type the URL you were given into a web browser address bar and have a look at it
  2. Type the URL you were given into http://jsonlint.com/ and have it validated
  3. Understand in your own mind what would be different about 1. to make it suitable
  4. Incorporate findings of 3. into massaging of data between file_get_contents and json_decode

Here is a link to some downloadable PHP programming source code which you may want to rename to winter_olympics.php

Thanks to Google for the research link access to search engine queries accessed via window.open Javascript calls.

Previous relevant Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON First Name Tutorial is shown below.

Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON First Name Tutorial

Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON First Name Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that re-introduces you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog. The name is the way it is because it simplified the API aspects of its functionality for the developer to concentrate on SQL, and I’m really supportive of this concept. You don’t have to output in JSON, as other data forms like XML are acceptable. Let’s see what Wikipedia says about YQL below.

Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) is an SQL-like query language created by Yahoo! as part of their Developer Network. YQL is designed to retrieve and manipulate data from APIs through a single Web interface, thus allowing mashups that enable developers to create their own applications.[1]

Initially launched in October 2008 with access to Yahoo APIs,[2] February 2009 saw the addition of open data tables from third parties such as Google Reader, the Guardian, and The New York Times.[3] Some of these APIs still require an API key to access them. On April 29th of 2009, Yahoo introduced the capability to execute the tables of data built through YQL using JavaScript run on the company’s servers for free.[3]

So this tutorial uses a YQL web service into the data emanating from its links to the First Names (firstnames) database of the www.thomas-bayer.com website … thanks. You fill in a First Name of interest to search for contributary country data regarding that name’s usage at the Yahoo YQL firstname www.thomas-bayer.com database tables.

The two big PHP functions of use for this are (normally):

Good links for information regarding this tutorial (thanks) are:

Another tool you should have in your armoury for jobs like this is the online JSON validator here. A generic JSON approach to issues could be:

  1. Type the URL you were given into a web browser address bar and have a look at it
  2. Type the URL you were given into http://jsonlint.com/ and have it validated
  3. Understand in your own mind what would be different about 1. to make it suitable
  4. Incorporate findings of 3. into massaging of data between file_get_contents and json_decode

Here is a link to some downloadable HTML programming source code which you may want to rename to first_name.html which calls some downloadable PHP programming source code which you may want to rename to first_name.php

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